Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much better example of a consistent whole, resting on a psychological. In it the name scherzo, is omitted from the third movement, which is essentially tragic in character and thus sustains a proper relation to the other movements. In the Eroica the scherzo certainly affords needed relaxation, after the gloom of the funeral march, yet one would wish that the descent were not quite so rapid, and surely the title of scherzo is decidedly out of place in such a connection. The last movement sustains the heroic character, though in a somewhat lighter strain, and forms a fitting conclusion...
...suddenly, in the midst of the gloom, there came a sound that startled the weary scribes, and they saw among them a familiar figure...
...time honored warning and the substitution of the slower, but far more dreadful, admonition. No longer can a student depend for mural decoration upon the attractive cards issued by the faculty. No "prayer" or other warning shall steal upon a man and cast a temporary gloom over his existence. But, after we have been lulled into indifference of the faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes and we are landed, much to our surprise, within dangerous proximity - to special probation. We can think of no reason for this change other than a desire to save much extra work...
...under his horse in the steeple chase, and was instantly killed. The horse belonged to an outsider and tripped on the fence, rolling completely over, and breaking its own neck. Mr. Codman leaves a large circle of sorrowing friends at the college, and his sudden death has cast a gloom over the entire college...
...news that the Rev. Dr. Peabody has been stricken with total deafness casts a gloom upon the entire college. No one more than Dr. Peabody has been or is respected by Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Indeed, it is expressing Harvard feeling all too mildly when we say that Dr. Peabody is respected; rather is he reverenced and beloved: and a misfortune to him causes deep sorrow throughout the college. With all Harvard men, we hope that Dr. Peabody who has been so much to Harvard and Harvard students, may by the skilful advice of his physicians, be restored to health...